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Saturday, October 1. 2011

Not the best start: missed the morning bus to Liberec. For a moment I was considering calling it off and maybe taking just a short hike somewhere near Prague, but then I bought a ticket for another bus line and was in Harrachov with about two hours delay. Headed North for the border, passed the trailhead to Mrtvy Vrch where I did the epic snowshoe activation last December and crossed the border to Poland.

Sudety landscape

A pleasant hike with nice views with one off-trail shortcut (I don't have Polish topo map in my GPSr) and I arrived to SP/SZ-001 in late afternoon.

At the summit of SP/SZ-001 Wysoka Kopa

The summit is off the main ridge trail and I had an undisturbed one and half hour for the activation. 40 and 30m, total 49 QSO, and shortly before sunset I was continuing west.

Sunset above Stog Izerski and Smrk

The sun was setting down over Stog Izerski and Smrk mountains, I hiked a little bit more in the dark and then stopped for a night at one of the trailside benches with a table. The grass was quite wet so I spent the night on that narrow bench and started with the sunrise.

View from Stog Izerski

Passed Stog Izerski with its aerial lift station in early morning and met first groups of hikers when crossing the Czech border near OK/LI-003 Smrk. Some 2m FM QSOs from the lookout tower, then I freed the tower to the crowds hikers and the frequency to the microwave contesters (each time when there is a MW contest, the 2m band is unusable because of their skeds) and started CQing on 30m.